Classic Wow, but with catastrophic hard drive failure!
0Here is Classic WoW being played after the system SSD it's played from was wiped live. I thought WoW would corrupt textures or fail in some amusing way that would be good for for a few-minute video, but... it just kept going! So if your hard drive were to fail in the middle of Ragnaros, you might be fine :p
I issued blkdiscard to my NVMe SSD which trims the entire drive and wipes out all data. Due to the wonders of Linux and WoW's tech that allows background downloading of data, it was as if nothing happened aside from a little more stuttering and some audio playback being delayed. I show the end of dmesg in Terminal to see errors.
I've tried doing other things with a wiped drive just to see how far I could get in the past, and normally GNOME would fail to start programs and eventually crash to black, or I'd get kicked back to the log-in screen. WoW continuing to work through Wine and DXVK is amazing!
3:00 - Terminal crashes when I try to re-size it by pushing it to the left-side
6:52 - Tried running uname and date commands; uname worked but not date; I might have ran uname earlier in the day unrelated to the video but definitely not date
8:15 - 9:27 - Tried to find a character on a different realm and I guess my characters were merged to other realms or something a while back; nothing notable happens in the video
Dell Latitude 5591 (i5-8400H, 32GB RAM, hynix P31 1TB SSD ext4)
Intel UHD 630 (1080p)
Ubuntu 23.04 (Liquorix 6.3 kernel)
Wine Staging 8.9 and DXVK
WoW Classic (Battle.net, DX11)
Install notes: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/games:wine:world_of_warcraft_classic
Other Videos By Espionage724
| 2023-10-16 | WoW Walk 4 |
| 2023-10-16 | WoW Walk 2 |
| 2023-10-16 | WoW Walk 1 |
| 2023-10-16 | WoW Walk 3 |
| 2023-10-16 | WoW Walk 5 |
| 2023-10-04 | GW2 in 2013 with Eyefinity (3 screens) |
| 2023-09-14 | Diablo II: Resurrected on Linux (no Lutris, minimal dependencies) |
| 2023-07-31 | Old School RuneScape C++ Client Install on Linux (Aug 2023) |
| 2023-07-17 | Fixing CPU Throttle of MacBook Pro Without Battery, on Linux |
| 2023-06-02 | Firefox scared me pretty good |
| 2023-05-29 | Classic Wow, but with catastrophic hard drive failure! |
| 2022-10-31 | American Truck Simulator Casual Job |
| 2022-10-30 | Lab even in GW2 |
| 2022-06-20 | OSRS Multitask VR Test 2 |
| 2022-06-20 | Head-tracked cusor in VR with osu! |
| 2022-06-05 | OSRS Multitask VR Test 1 |
| 2022-03-15 | SINRO-TECH Massage Gun (JX-703) Unbox |
| 2022-03-14 | OSRS on Chromecast with Google TV (CCwGTV) |
| 2021-11-30 | Practicing being a rideshare driver in VR with City Car Driving |
| 2021-11-09 | McOsu - The Pretender [Pretender] (osu! in VR) |
| 2021-11-09 | osu! - Among Us / Eurobeat Remix [Insane] |
Other Statistics
World of WarCraft Statistics For Espionage724
At present, Espionage724 has 16,655 views spread across 33 videos for World of WarCraft, with his channel currently having around 8 hours worth of content for World of WarCraft. This is 40.36% of the total watchable video on Espionage724's YouTube channel.